Just arrived from the builders
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Captain Walter Lyle Hume,Isle of Wight
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Just arrived from the builders |
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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Captain Walter Lyle Hume,Isle of Wight |
Joe Croan LH 73
| Built | 1956 John Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (Steel) |
| Yard No | 258 |
| Owner at New | Joe Croan Ltd, Granton Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
| ID no | 186648 |
| Launch Date | 28.03.1956 |
| Completed | 06.1956 |
| Gross Tons | 272 |
| Nett Tons | 86 |
| Engine | 640 hp 4cyl 2SA M44M by British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow (Engine number 328) |
| Length | 115.3ft |
| Breadth | 25.1ft |
| Depth | 12ft |
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| 06.1956 | Registered at Leith LH 73 |
| 1961 | Owned by Carnie & Croan Ltd, Granton Edinburgh |
| 1969 | Owned by Croan Trawlers Ltd, Granton Edinburgh (Joe Croan manager) |
| 27.01.1970 | Skipper Tom Young arrested by Danish Navy vessel for fishing and taken to Nolsoe for illegally 1.7 miles inside the Faeroese 12 mile limit |
| 1970 | Owned by British United Trawlers (Scotland) Ltd, Granton Edinburgh |
| 1972 | Owned by Strathcoe Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (B. U. T. Aberdeen) |
| 10.1977 | Sold as scrap to J. H. Pounds, Portsmouth. |
| 27.08.1983 | Sailed Newhaven Sussex under tow for Bruges Belgium. |
| 28.08.1983 | Arrived in Bruges. |
| 1983 | Scrapped by Jacques Bakker & Sons at Bruges Belgium. |
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| Leaving Granton | |
| © Reproduced with acknowledgement to Johnleif Jenson Faeroe Islands | |
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| Lying in Ayr summer 1969 | |
| ©Reproduced with acknowledgement to Jim Pottinger, Aberdeen | |
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| Alongside in Newhaven Sussex awaiting scrapping | |
| © Reproduced with acknowledgement to Derek Longly & Ournewhaven.org.uk | |
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| Under tow in Newhaven Sussex | |
| © Reproduced with acknowledgement to Derek Longly & Ournewhaven.org.uk | |
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| Leaving Newhaven Sussex under tow for scrap yard 27.08.1983 | |
| © Reproduced with acknowledgement to Derek Longly & Ournewhaven.org.uk | |